Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

1. I agree with you that AD-OLAM is 'forever', still, ELEM is a  
'young adult'.

2. Adultery is not a Hebrew word.

3. I think that the component EL in ELEM is related to Strong's 5924  
and 5925. It is also related to EIYAL ( איל ), 'strength,  
superiority', as in Ps. 88:5, and also to (UL ( עול ), 'young', as  
in Is. 65:20.

4. Strong's 5956 is 'cover, heap-over, pile-over, grow-over, surmount'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:25 PM, fred burlingame wrote:

> Hello Isaac:
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> For me anyhow, "the proof is in the pudding."
>
> I hence, invite your reading of 1 chronicles 23:13; and numbers  
> 5:13. How do you read the relevant portions of these verses?
>
> a. "to bless in name of him to young adult?" and
>
> b. adultery "is young adult from eyes of her husband"?
>
> It doesn't sound sensible or reasonable to me.
>
> Perhaps your strong's numbers 5958, 5959 derive from the root 5921;  
> and strong's 5956 represents a separate root entirely?
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame.
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> As I have already observed the word OLAM ( עולם ) is of the root  
> (LM ( עלם ), which certainly can not mean 'hidden, secrete,  
> conceal'. To wit: this is also the root of ELEM and ALMAH ( עלם,  
> עלמה ), 'young adults', which are not hidden, and have nothing  
> to hide.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:44 PM, fred burlingame wrote:
>
> > Applying the rabbi's rule to the phrase at hand: i read it to  
> > mean: "until
> > concealed" or "until hidden," no more .. and no less ....